Power turned off as Didcot A station is finally closed down (From Herald Series)

I managed the Didcot Power station construction account at the CEGB's HQ in London, during the 1960s and, of course, I support wholeheartedly it's purpose, now done with.

In the 60s I didn't know I would be moving to within a stone's throw of it in 1975. Now I won't be at all sorry to see it come down. I live closer than folk in Didcot and it's been a real, if necessary, blot on my landscape. I'm looking forward to renewed views and no steam blotting out the sun.

I wish everyone involved with the power station good fortune, as they move on.

What a wise government to shut down generating capacity. All of us who've been out this morning certainly feel the global warming in the air.Coming from the east, isn't it? We'll not need much leccy now it's so, so warm.
And don't believe that the Chinese are building so many fossil fuel plants that whatever we do isn't going to make as much difference as a pitcher of warm spit. That's just anti-warmist propaganda and people who say it should be made to listen to Nobel Prize Al Gore DVD's for eternity.

Figure about all the site is good for, and we do need them, is to build a new power station there. Didcot C anyone? Guess it'd need to be gas too.

About time! Look forward to it coming now and no longer destroying my view on the way to work as well as polluting the air for miles around and costing the NHS billions.

Assuming the land can't be used for housing (and save nearby villages from being swallowed up) then it should be another power generating site.

More warehousing/distribu
tion is not what Didcot needs. Skilled jobs are what power stations provide, so build another.

It has all the right ingredients for a new station, so maybe that's its best use.

Yep Bring on Didcot C.. The site is ideal for another Gas Powered station.. i mean the cooling towers are already there surely it would save on demolition costs...

Along with many others I was an apprentice at Didcot A. I left in December '72 and went to Aberthaw B which will run for a few years yet.

On leaving the power industry I returned as a contractor to Didcot A & B quite a few times. My later employers around the area liked ex power station men as we has a good grasp of the bigger spectrum and wider fields of engineering, a good return on our training.

A big shame to see Didcot A close especially when there is so much life left in the equipment, a decision which some may come to regret when the lights start to go out. The nations strategy of replacing stations like Didcot seems to be flawed and not necessarily well thought out, but then again until you have worked within the industry you would have little appreciation of what the demands really are.

the wizard wrote:
Along with many others I was an apprentice at Didcot A. I left in December '72 and went to Aberthaw B which will run for a few years yet.

On leaving the power industry I returned as a contractor to Didcot A & B quite a few times. My later employers around the area liked ex power station men as we has a good grasp of the bigger spectrum and wider fields of engineering, a good return on our training.

A big shame to see Didcot A close especially when there is so much life left in the equipment, a decision which some may come to regret when the lights start to go out. The nations strategy of replacing stations like Didcot seems to be flawed and not necessarily well thought out, but then again until you have worked within the industry you would have little appreciation of what the demands really are.

The problem is that the politicians are concerned with theology-the Gore Faith in Manmade Global Warming . They are now nearly all "professional politicians" i.e. know nothing of anything except politicking. Even heard one Social Democrat female say she'd been put off a "career" in politics by being goosed at a Liberal conference or suchlike, years ago. It should not be a "career"; it should be a vocation for mature people with knowledge. It isn't;hence turning the nation's lights off in pursuit of a chimera.

What a mad decision to force the closure of an economic, serviceable power station as energy prices soar way above inflation and the UKs energy supply diminishes. Major industries have left the UK due to the increasing electricity costs and our sad Governing parties - Lib,Lab,Con - all conspire to impoverish the Nation. All 3 sad loser Parties have enslaved themselves to the EUs diktats and bought into an unproven 'man-made Global warming' (sic) theology. Climate change is a natural event (like earthquakes!) and has been going on for millenia (or did power stations cause the ice-ages?!). Climate change is not caused by CO2, which is an unproven theory that has become a religion. climate change is driven by the suns fluctuations and the earths fluctuating orbit about it. So now the UK economy is being crippled by the Lib, Lab, Con worship of EU diktat and unproven assumptions. Next they'll make policy using the zodiac - oops they probably do! When the lights go out remember - we told you so. Vote for energy and growth - vote against the Lib, Lab, Con failures.

Lord Palmerstone wrote:

the wizard wrote:
Along with many others I was an apprentice at Didcot A. I left in December '72 and went to Aberthaw B which will run for a few years yet.

On leaving the power industry I returned as a contractor to Didcot A & B quite a few times. My later employers around the area liked ex power station men as we has a good grasp of the bigger spectrum and wider fields of engineering, a good return on our training.

A big shame to see Didcot A close especially when there is so much life left in the equipment, a decision which some may come to regret when the lights start to go out. The nations strategy of replacing stations like Didcot seems to be flawed and not necessarily well thought out, but then again until you have worked within the industry you would have little appreciation of what the demands really are.

The problem is that the politicians are concerned with theology-the Gore Faith in Manmade Global Warming . They are now nearly all "professional politicians" i.e. know nothing of anything except politicking. Even heard one Social Democrat female say she'd been put off a "career" in politics by being goosed at a Liberal conference or suchlike, years ago. It should not be a "career"; it should be a vocation for mature people with knowledge. It isn't;hence turning the nation's lights off in pursuit of a chimera.

You seem to be asking that politicians are both 'mature people with knowledge' and climate change deniers at the same time - I think you'll find they are mutually exclusive. I'm not aware of any peer reviewed science that backs up the silly claims of the deniers though you've only got to scratch the surface to see who their paymasters are.

Whatever the rights or wrongs of closing Didcot A right now it doesn't change the fact that we are frittering away our chances of preserving a stable climate for future generations.

museli wrote:

Lord Palmerstone wrote:

the wizard wrote:
Along with many others I was an apprentice at Didcot A. I left in December '72 and went to Aberthaw B which will run for a few years yet.

On leaving the power industry I returned as a contractor to Didcot A & B quite a few times. My later employers around the area liked ex power station men as we has a good grasp of the bigger spectrum and wider fields of engineering, a good return on our training.

A big shame to see Didcot A close especially when there is so much life left in the equipment, a decision which some may come to regret when the lights start to go out. The nations strategy of replacing stations like Didcot seems to be flawed and not necessarily well thought out, but then again until you have worked within the industry you would have little appreciation of what the demands really are.

The problem is that the politicians are concerned with theology-the Gore Faith in Manmade Global Warming . They are now nearly all "professional politicians" i.e. know nothing of anything except politicking. Even heard one Social Democrat female say she'd been put off a "career" in politics by being goosed at a Liberal conference or suchlike, years ago. It should not be a "career"; it should be a vocation for mature people with knowledge. It isn't;hence turning the nation's lights off in pursuit of a chimera.

You seem to be asking that politicians are both 'mature people with knowledge' and climate change deniers at the same time - I think you'll find they are mutually exclusive. I'm not aware of any peer reviewed science that backs up the silly claims of the deniers though you've only got to scratch the surface to see who their paymasters are.

Whatever the rights or wrongs of closing Didcot A right now it doesn't change the fact that we are frittering away our chances of preserving a stable climate for future generations.

"You seem to be asking that politicians are both 'mature people with knowledge' and climate change deniers at the same time - I think you'll find they are mutually exclusive. I'm not aware of any peer reviewed science that backs up the silly claims of the deniers though
Whatever the rights or wrongs of closing Didcot A right now it doesn't change the fact that we are frittering away our chances of preserving a stable climate for future generations"
Yes, that's right. Whatever happens in China and India can't possibly affect us can it , provided we shut down generating capacity and can't make a cup of tea unless the wind's blowing?
As Nevill Chamberlain once said, and I paraphrase, "India and China are far off countries of which we know little"
Indeed I expect there was a lot of "peer-reviewed" (pseudo)science to substantiate Vitalstatistix's cogent belief that the sky was about to fall on him.
"you've only got to scratch the surface to see who their paymasters are".Indeed you have . Building non-functional windmills is a displacement activity but not so aesthetic as building cathedrals for the same purpose (placating the gods so they don't reign pestilence on us) but a darned sight more profitable for the useful idiots of the warmist theology, eh, Dave's dad-in -law?

Well one thing we DO know about India and China is that there per capita CO2 output is much lower than ours. Another interesting fact about China is that it it has more wind generation capacity than any other country - bit of an odd investment if they are non-functional.

museli wrote:
Well one thing we DO know about India and China is that there per capita CO2 output is much lower than ours. Another interesting fact about China is that it it has more wind generation capacity than any other country - bit of an odd investment if they are non-functional.

And one thing we might hypothesise about India and China is that it is their ambition to achieve what we currently have, prosperous citizens, and to that end they are constructing an enormous number of fossil fuel power plants. Which is just as well for China; it'll need them when the wind doesn't blow, and of course the "on-off" cycle with the ludicrous windmills is a far greater consumer of gas. However, we shall not be more prosperous than them much longer with vile "Green" taxes, so no doubt we'll win your praise (through your chattering teeth) for our rapidly falling emission of CO2-in fact your dream may be realised in that many elderly in Britain will cease emitting CO2 orally at all.